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Drawing of aerial perspective of the ore and coal docks

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formerly Z&W with Barber Bettendorf trucks

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Side view; ex T&OC #121 built at Bucyrus, OH in 1911; retired Feb 1964; Barber Bettendorf trucks.

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Side view; ex T&OC #121 built at Bucyrus, OH in 1911; retired Feb 1964; Barber Bettendorf trucks.

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angle view of wood caboose

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Not far west of the previous vantage point a footbridge crosses Airline Junction Yard, and this photograph and the following two were taken from the bridge. To the left of the main tracks on 3 Main is a Danbury extra, F7 units 1762-1763 with 99 empty…

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West of Toledo Union Station

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The rear end of no. 14's seventeen-car train is still threading its way out of Central Union Terminal as the two Hudsons up front nose onto the Maumee River bridge. Contrary to the Pennsylvania's custom of running its K-4s in tandem on heavy trains,…

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A last look at handsome Central Union Terminal finds J-3 no. 5411 in the final stages of preparation for departure on no. 73, an afternoon train from Cleveland to Chicago. Up front, a mechanical department laborer is disconnecting the grease gun air…

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A maintenance of way gang doing some hand surfacing in Oakdale interlocking stands back as big no. 6011 barrels past with no. 46, the Interstate Express. This train is primarily geared to the Chicago-Boston business, and after extensive switching at…

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West of Broadway tower (visible in the right background), S-1 no. 6013 begins to apply her plentiful horsepower to the task of breaking no. 35 away from the restrictions of the Toledo terminal, with the 133-mile racetrack to Elkhart ahead to bring…

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Little Fassett Street tower on the left is at the west end of a short stretch of four-track main line in East Toledo. It also controls movements between the main tracks and the northwest wye connection with the W&LE belt. This wye is visible here…

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This activity in the rain at the west end of Central Union Terminal features J-1 no. 5266 heading no. 312, the day Cincinnati-Detroit train. Behind her are E8s 4088-4089 westbound on no. 35, a New York-Chicago train primarily devoted to head-end…

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After Toledo, the next water stop for the 5391 will be at Bellefontaine, Ohio, roughly the halfway mark on the run to Cincinnati. The train is no. 303 out of Detroit, on which power is sometimes changed at Bellefontaine (if the engine happens to be…
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